Disclaimer: The following opinion article featured does not reflect the opinion of the Northern Iowan newspaper or staff as a whole. The high court’s ruling issued last week was a significant victory for advocates of open government, including Iowa Capital Dispatch and our deputy editor Clark Kauffman. We were among the plaintiffs in the case because it was the only avenue left to maintain the Iowa Open Records Law as a meaningful, enforceable statute. In a 6-0 ruling, the justices made it clear that custodians of public records can’t skirt the law’s requirements by simply ignoring requests for documents, as the governor’s office did for as long as 18 months before the lawsuit was filed. Click the link in our bio to read more.